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Find our Christmas quiz questions and answers below...

Christmas Quiz Questions

  1. 1. In the 12 Days of Christmas song, what were the 10 lords doing?
  2. 2. When Kevin is left home alone for the first time, where is the family’s destination for their Christmas vacation?
  3. 3. Christmas Island is located in which ocean?
  4. 4. What Christmas product was invented by a London sweet maker named Tom Smith?
  5. 5. Two of the reindeer are named after weather phenomena. Name the reindeer.
  6. 6. Thousands of what marched to London from Norfolk just before Christmas each year in Victorian times?
  7. 7. Which famous puppets starred alongside Michael Caine in a film that was an adaptation of the novel “A Christmas Carol”?
  8. 8. What Christmas food is made from a mixture of apple, dried fruit, candied fruit, spices and suet?
  9. 9. What are the two main ingredients of a snowball cocktail?
  10. 10. What was the first Christmas song broadcast from space in 1965?
  11. 11. What is the name of the reindeer belonging to Kristoff in the Disney film “Frozen”?
  12. 12. Ilex is the scientific genus of which type of Christmas foliage?
  13. 13. Since 1952, which song has topped the charts at Christmas on three separate occasions?
  14. 14. In a traditional pantomime, what is Aladdin’s surname?
  15. 15. In which country would you be served twelve meatless dishes on December 24th?
  16. 16. Which country gives a Christmas tree to Britain every year?
  17. 17. Who plays the Prime Minister in the 2003 film “Love Actually”?
  18. 18. Which English ruler banned the singing of Christmas songs?
  19. 19. From which country do Poinsettias originate?
  20. 20. What is the name of the German/ Austrian yeast cake often served at Christmas?
  21. 21. What is a baby turkey called?
  22. 22. What did Santa Claus win in 1964?
  23. 23. In which fictional land is it always winter but never Christmas?
  24. 24. What is another name for “Forcemeat”?
  25. 25. In which city would you find Wenceslas Square?

Answers:

1. Leaping

2. Paris

3. Indian Ocean

4. Christmas cracker

5. Donner, meaning thunder in German, and Blitzen, meaning lightening

6. Turkeys

7. The Muppets

8. Mincemeat

9. Advocaat and lemonade

10. Jingle Bells

11. Sven

12. Holly

13. Do They Know it’s Christmas?

14. Twankey

15. Poland

16. Norway

17. Hugh Grant

18. Oliver Cromwell

19. Mexico

20. Stollen

21. Poult

22. The Epsom Derby

23. Narnia

24. Stuffing

25. Prague

Tie breaker...

The winner is the player who guesses the closest year to the correct answer...

Q. What year was Christmas declared a holiday in the United States?


A. 1870

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